Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks

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Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...

Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks

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Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....

Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers

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Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...

Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine

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Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...

Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus

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Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...

Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article

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The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...

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Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus

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Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...

Royal Skulls from Alexandropol Kurgan in Ukraine: Scythian Sauromaetae Race?

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https://youtu.be/L-75PvHzT0M The excavations of the grandiose Scythian funeral complex at Alexandropol in Ukraine were described in the previous video on this channel. Alexander Liutsenko, who excavated...

Veche Assembly of Kyiv Rus: Scandinavians had a similar tradition, Muscovites...

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Per Wikipedia, Veche was a popular assembly during the Middle Ages. The veche is mentioned during the times of Kyiv Rus and it later became a powerful institution in Russian cities...

‘Ukrainian landscape with chumaks in the moonlight’ by I. Aivazovsky

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" Chumak (Ukrainian: чумак) is a historic and traditional wagon-based trading occupation on the territory of modern Ukraine in late Medieval and early Modern periods of history. It consisted in the delivery...

OTD in 1998, Ukraine and the U.S. signed an agreement to...

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Here is how it looked back then: "Ukraine dismantled its last strategic bomber during a May 17 ceremony at an airfield in Uzin attended...

Mr Jones film highlights Welsh ‘unknown hero’ Gareth Jones – BBC

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The film includes graphic depictions of the famine and details Soviet efforts to suppress the truth. It is inspired by the true story of Gareth...

History as a Weapon in Russia’s War on Ukraine, – Atlantic...

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"We learn that “the Russians” suffered twenty-seven million losses before taking Berlin. Meanwhile, there is scant reference to the fact Ukraine saw far more of...

More Ukrainians died fighting Nazism in WW2 than Americans, British, and...

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"More Ukrainians died on the Allied side than French. More Ukrainians fought and died on the Allied side than British. More Ukrainians fought and...

Tauroscythian King Scilurus, founder of Scythian Neapolis in Taurica/Crimea: Facial reconstruction...

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A powerful Scythian Kingdom existed in Northern Crimea/Taurica in the 2nd century BC. Its capital was Scythian Neapolis, near the modern city of Simferopol.Archaeological...

‘In Russia cannot be even one man who would not be...

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"Lately, I was suddenly struck by the thought that in Russia, among our educated classes, there cannot be even one man who wouldn't be...

Chamber-Graves of Kyiv Rus: Scythian burial ritual revival

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Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...

Scythian Golden Comb with Battle Scene from Solokha Royal Kurgan in...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUhpAFYKPY A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in the Solokha Royal Kurgan in the Zaporizhzhia...